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Alpha-1 and COPD Foundations Sponsor Workshop on Standardizing CT Scans for COPD
Bethesda. MD –- The Alpha-1 Foundation and COPD Foundation are sponsoring a workshop this week for specialists from around the world to review the state of the art in CT Scan technology and arrive at a set of recommendations for future research on COPD.
The two-day workshop beginning Thursday is formally entitled “Quantitive Chest Tomography in COPD Research” and will involve both presentations and discussions by experts attending from as far away as Japan.
According to Alpha-1 Foundation Scientific Director Adam Wanner, MD, “Quantitative computed tomography has the potential to be a very important tool to study the genetics and pathogenesis of COPD, as well as the potential effect of therapeutic interventions. The central problem is, there is currently no standardized method for CT scanning in COPD.”
